Reon & Rosa ?

[Otto223]

I’m having girl boy twins.

My partner loves Rosa, I’m not a massive fan but I can become one. I’m comprising with him as we’re struggling to agree on names. Rosa reminds me of an elderly lady and a bit dated. What do you guys think?

I love Reon for boy, and he said he’ll go with that if I go with Rosa. My other boy name is Rueben.

I think Rosa is a pretty and classic name.

Reon is not a name I'm family with. It kind of seems like Leon mispronounced. Sorry :/

Rosa is beautiful.
I have never heard of Reon. I can’t say I like it, it’s like a mispronounced Ryan.
Do you want them to have the same initials?
Rowan, Rohan, Roman maybe

Remember many young children struggle to pronounce r, Reon may not work well

I associate Reon, or Iwan Rheon, with a Game of Thrones character. He was a baddie. Sausage (iykyk).

Sorry Iwan played Ramsey Bolton who waved the sausage 🌭.

I think having Reuben already to have Reon or any similar variant eg Rowan etc just sounds too much like Topsy and Tim.
But then I don't really like the trend of every child's name starting with the same letter, or kids with rhyming names etc.
Also Reon autocorrects to Ron so some people might think it's a typo and that's his name.
Reuben and Rosa are lovely names - why not choose a 3rd name that's nice in its own right rather than cos you want them to match in some way?

I love Rosa - to me it’s a classic but also feels modern - I know young children and teens with the name and it suits them well.

I’ve never heard Reon before - I like it but I think it’s very similar to Reuben and because it’s rare will get misheard as Leon, if that bothers you? I can imagine being sleep deprived and having to explain for the 50th time that day that, yes they’re twins, and no it’s not Leon, it’s Reon with and “R” (from personal experience you get stopped and asked babies names a lot more with twins than a singleton 😂 )

Would your partner accept Leon?
It's so much nicer than Reon.

Rosa is beautiful.

I'm not a fan of matchy names - too twee for adults.

I don't like Rein sorry - makes me think of Neon.

I prefer Rose to Rosa. I think Rose is really beautiful.

So how about Rose and Marc?

Rosa and Reuben work beautifully together.

Love Rosa
Out of the two I prefer Reuben

Is Rueben a typo, OP?

I like Rosa, and don't think it's an old ladies name. I don't like Reon though sorry. Rory, Ronan, Roman, Rhys?

Rosa is a lovely traditional name without being too common. Reon sounds like an extra e slipped into Ron. Ron or Ronald would be a nice match. Hopefully Rueben is just a typo and you meant Reuben. That would go well too.

Doing a brief google search suggests Reon is a South African name? Assuming that you are indeed South African in heritage then the name is ok but I have to be honest and say that I find matchy matchy names for twins a bit chavvy and downmarket - there are some absolute horrors on some of the twin online groups and they are usually American

My little girl was almost a Rosa, love it. I have to say though I've never heard of Reon, it kind of sounds similar in my head to crayon. Sorry!

@somuchtodonextyear Yes the twins will be of mixed heritage so I wanted names to match both. I love Reuben but my partner says it reminds him of a sandwich. Where I’m from I know a few Reon’s, so I thought the name was sweet & would work

I would aim for names you're both really happy with rather than both accepting a name you're not that keen on for the sake of getting one name you've chosen.

I'm also not into matchy names so I wouldn't do the same initials

I think Reon and Rosa sound like you’re naming a set of twins rather than two separate children. I like Rosa but prefer Rose. Reon I really dislike (I also dislike Leon so it isn’t just because it is a less common name).

Rosa and Reuben is fine but two children with same initial and surname/place of birth/address/date of birth can be confusing.

I'm not a fan of matchy names either. Do you like anything that doesn't begin with R?

My partner is a twin with matchy first initials with his brother. So for us matching initials would work as he grew up with no problem matching the initial with his brother

Please don't name your child after a GofT character!

@CurlewKate No idea what that is. But we haven’t choose these names after any characters

Apologies- I misremembered. It's a GofT actor not a character.

I'd think of rayon, earlier form of viscose